Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merlin Lahm

She's been in OK condition, and she's getting closer to race form. She was running great times last year.

Jimmy Howard

I have been dreaming of playing in the National Hockey League all of my life, and to get one step closer to that goal is special.

Pam Robinson

I have a very difficult time moving west of Metcalf when you have families driving past one, two or three elementary schools that are closer than 21.

Marcus Gronholm

I didn't expect to win. It's a new car, it's a fantastic result. I thought I could win before the last stage, not earlier. Everything is possible. We had our problems this morning. I was expecting Sebastien will be closer but I knew it would be a good fight here, I was sure about that. Petter had so many troubles in this rally, he couldn't show his speed. We have to wait for Mexico to see what he can do.

Bobby Cox

I thought he was hitting closer to .300. He's had a lot of big hits.

Morris Gleitzman

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

Alexandra Stoddard

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be.

Moises Alou

We need to get closer by the time we get there.

Jack Richardson

We had 298 evacuees in the four shelters, but we're down to 120 today. Our numbers are continuing to fall as people find family members to stay with or return closer to home down south.

Alex Smith

It feels great to get my first (touchdown pass), no matter where it was, but it was great to get it here. Obviously, a lot of credit goes to the other guys, the receivers and especially the guys up front. Things are going to come together. All we need to do is keep working hard. Being young, I'm continuing to learn and make strides every week.

Phil Boyer

The statistics don't support planes falling out of the sky.

Billy Blanks

When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.

Bobby Darin

I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

Clive Barker

There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.

Clive Barker

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.

E. B. White

We stand or fall by television.

E. B. White

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E. B. White

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

E. B. White

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Robert Stevens

We just notified his (Reich's) family, and they are very happy.

Rory Bruer

We just trade screened it and they love it. It'll open very wide -- probably 3,200-plus locations. It's a great family film.

Shirley Williams

We just take everything one day at a time. We're happy to have them here. A lot of people don't have any family or friends at all.

Christine McVie

We were like a big family even then. Mick's like my brother.

Mack Douglas

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.

Joe McDermott

When a family comes in, they're getting more for their money.

Douglas Adams

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Jon Hampton

Obviously, the game plan has got to be to try to take the other four guys out and let Mike (Tisdale) get his. It worked three times this year and 27 times it didn't. Unfortunately, it worked (this game).

Jon Jansen

Obviously, I would rather play with 10 good fingers, ... But four on each hand will do.

Dwane Casey

Right now it's not balanced. It's going to be tough to play four point guards.

Pat Cleland

Rich teaches his kids to play physical just like I teach my kids. Tonight they did it for four quarters and we did it for three.

Tyler Thornton

Only four guys at each weight go out with a victory. I didn't want to end with a loss.

Davis III

Next year will be great. There will be those four tournaments that I know I want to play.

Trent Green

Nine of the 11 guys have pretty much been together going on four years,

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Joy Williams

Everything is gone. And it's not so much the material things. It's just ... that's home.

Clint Hurdle

The responsibility's on the runner to run through home plate all the time. There's no reason to ever slow down unless it's a home run. That way it's safety first and there's no questions.

Andrew Lochart

There's still plenty of unprotected home users, but this virus isn't ground-breaking.

David Henderson

There's so much parity in the league, so you've got to get those home wins. This one hurt. We needed to squeeze it out.

Cedric Bozeman

There's no time to be tired now. This is it. You lose, you go home and we don't want to go home.

Adam LaRoche

There's nothing worse than to lose in the first round, ... I'd rather not be in the playoffs at all. There's nothing worse than to have to go home after a loss.

Troy Vincent

There's nothing like winning. At least you can go home for at least that week and feel half-decent about yourself.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Nicholson Baker

You can register a political objection in a number of ways.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

Will Forte

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

Jim Ritterbusch

The numbers didn't do much to slow the rally down,

Al Goldman

The numbers are very significant for the markets,

Michael Swanson

The numbers are the numbers, ... and they are a very precise measurement of a very vague concept.

Robert Scoble

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Cindy Sheehan

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Jan Egeland

Are we going to have tens of thousands of people staying in the rubble and in the snow until it's too late? Maybe. It's a logistical nightmare,

Julie Hall

Are people still sleeping with their chickens? Yes, they are.

Ayad Allawi

are outlaws or terrorists ... who do not represent the sentiments of the people of the towns.

Randeep Hooda

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

Pablo Picasso

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision.

Carl Olson

And then people got all excited. Why was it there?

Constantin Oclei

The situation is very bad. We need to evacuate 1,200 people from Bechet and its surroundings by this evening.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love.

Ralph Lauren

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

David Castillo

It was one shot. The thing is, it was the same stuff in me all three times. That's what happened. That's what it was, because it stays in your system. It was the same stuff, and there was nothing I could do about it.